Have Church --- Will Travel

No, this is not about a tent, portable worship facility or any thing like that. This story is about taking worship to a disabled member of our congregation in Mexico. Hermano Miguel is probably about 50 years old, and he is confined to a wheelchair. His modest home is just a few blocks from the place that our church worships but he apparently has no way to get to worship services. So we take worship to him! About once a month, after worship or after a mid-week prayer service, a group of usually 10-12 of us head up to Hermano Miguel's house for worship.

After the usual pleasantries, we settle into a circle of chairs in his home. There is a small table and a couple of pictures on the block walls. He has a dozen or so foldable chairs but the room is otherwise sparse. This time together is truly worship! We sing praise songs, traditional hymns, read scripture together, pray together and hear a short message from Geyner. Indeed God is among us there, just as promised!

For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.
Matthew 18:20

And truly Hermano Miguel is touched by the determination to allow him to participate in worship despite his disabilities. His smiles, eyes and words convey such joy when we are with him. We are just as blessed as he, and we are all reminded that our church is not a building, but rather a body of people. We are a body of people free to move and go --- to serve ---- to worship --- to celebrate the love of Christ wherever and whenever we choose.

This, of course, is true in most of Mexico and all of the US, but we must remember that, in some parts of Mexico and many other parts of the world, Christian worship cannot occur whenever and wherever we choose. Join us in praying for safekeeping for those Christians in parts of the world where persecution is rampant.

And join us in saying thank you to God that we can and do pick up and take our church for worship, praise, service and celebration to Hermano Miguel and other places that God calls us in Chiapas.